NASg combines the power of many devices into a shared storage platform

Network Attached Storage grid

NASg combines the storage resources and processing power from many low cost compute resources into a shared storage pool that is scalable, high performance and highly reliable.

NASg is made up of a grid of storage nodes and a processing grid working together.

1) NASg combines the storage resources from any number of off the shelf NAS devices (storage nodes) into a shared storage pool designed for primary storage. This allows an unlimited number of storage nodes to be added to the pool over time.

2) NASg aggregates the processing power of the clients and servers accessing the storage grid and distributes the storage processing across the clients. This allows advanced redundancy processing (higher than RAID 6) to be performed and then stripe the resulting data across the grid of storage nodes.

This unique approach allows NASg to harness parallel processing power and parallel network I/O to create a highly reliable storage grid using low cost components.

Standard Network Drive

A NASg volume appears as a standard Microsoft network drive to clients of the grid. Applications, users and other systems interact with NASg in exactly the same way as they would with any standard network drive from a file server or NAS device.

The Power of Many Has No Limits

Unlimited Storage Capacity

By off-loading the storage processing to a grid of high powered clients, any number of low cost NAS devices can be combined into a high performance storage platform with unlimited capacity.

Unlimited Network Bandwidth

Clients use parallel I/O to communicate with each storage node in a Gridstore and files are uniformly striped across each storage node. As the number of storage nodes increase, each storage node does less work and the parallel data path to the Gridstore increases.

Unlimited Processing Capacity

Because the client does the expensive storage processing and distributes the data in parallel to the Gridstore, adding more clients results in adding more parallel processing capacity.

Unlimited Reliability

By leveraging the processing power on the clients, a NASg client stripes data and a configurable number of redundant slices across many storage nodes. While RAID 5/6 allow only 1 or 2 disks to fail, NASg will allow any pre-configured number of storage nodes to fail without data loss or down time.